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- A domesticated Jesus embraces the culture’s values without challenging them; He is a “safe” Jesus who is no threat to the established way of doing things.
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Dec 3, 2008 · A domesticated Jesus embraces the culture’s values without challenging them; He is a “safe” Jesus who is no threat to the established way of doing things. Yet Christ did not come into the world to be “nice” or “safe,” and the Jesus we find in the Gospels cannot be domesticated.
Dec 29, 2018 · A Domesticated God. I’ve come to see that the problem—my lack of faith, my passionless heart, and my struggle to surrender—came from a fundamental deficiency in my vision of God. The God I imagined in my heart was not the same God who reveals himself through the Scriptures.
Apr 27, 2007 · BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) is a wonderful way to study the Bible with other women from all walks of life. Here is an invitation with a little warning.
a. Jesus called a little child to Him: Jesus might have answered the question, “who is the greatest?” by pointing to Himself. Instead, Jesus drew their attention to His nature by having them look at a child as an example. i. The fact that the child came when Jesus called says something about Jesus.
- The Domestication of Jesus’s Parables
- Responding to Jesus and His Parables
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By far, in my view, the most important and also the most difficult aspect of making Jesus’s parables relevant today is recognizing their prophetic perspective, learning more about the socio-economic situation in the first-century in which Jesus created his parables, and avoiding the all-too-common “domestication” of Jesus’s prophetic message. In my...
If we allow Jesus’s parables to speak to us, we sometimes find that, in the words of Pogo, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Jesus told his parables to and about religious people, and there are times they are aimed at us. Click To TweetHoward Thurman is correct, I believe, when he concludes that an existential encounter with the teachings of J...
Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1949). The book served as an inspiration for many civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. See also Howard Thurman, Sermons on the Parables, edited and introduced by David B. Gowler and Kipton E. Jensen (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2018). Detailed extensively in Gowl...
6 days ago · Welcome to *Theology Unplugged – Question and Answer Friday* with C. Michael Patton! In this episode, we’ll dive into several key topics: Christ’s fulfillment of the Law in Matthew 5 and its implications for our lives today, the challenges and nuances of Calvinism, including God’s sovereignty and human free will, and the importance of inerrancy as an essential doctrine.
How to Study The Bible: An In-Depth Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners. by Ashley; What is the Bible? The Bible is a cohesive set of books, stories, poems, prophecies, historical narratives, and letters inspired by God and written by humans for humans. Put very simply, the Bible is the Word of God. The Bible is God speaking directly to His creation.
